Raje amar
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Yes,only if ARDE can pull its socks up and churn out an world class kinetic energy round for it asap!!The present one has become hopelessly outdated and inadequate for defeating the type of armor that Indian Army is expected to face!!Unless and until that happens,Arjun will remain the mightiest sparring tank......in the way that it can take a lot of hits and literally spit those out but never dishing out any effective blows in return!!
I would rather be happier if we could get our hands on something like the Leopard 2A7,it's a proven and matured technology.But Armata will do I hope.
That is importing too!!This whole tot drama is just that - a big drama and nothing else!!Because no one in the world parts with any technology. They only part with industrial production methodologies & thgis is known as ToT. So, without the former, the latter becomes only licenced-production. Consequently, all this ToT can NEVER be applied for the development or production of any other product.
As for India have to pay exorbitant amounts of money for weapons procurements & the kind ToT that never translates into indigenous product solutions, this has been going on since the 1960s itself with regard to the IAF.If you desire a product that is cheaper to buy then you have to forego this stupid & preposterous option of licenced-production. A Su-30MKI costs only Rs.242 crores if imported from Russia, but costs Rs.358 crores if built in India. Therefore,if you do the math, you will conclude that just for the sake of keeping less than 5,000 workers of HAL engaged in some form of industrial activity, India has had to fork out an extra Rs.35,000+ crores for licence-building 272 Su-30MKIs! What kind of economic/commercial logic is that? And in what way has all this effort helped India with the LCA’s R & D endeavours? You therefore need to rationalize & analyse with a cool head all these inputs, & not blindly believe all the trash & utter baloney that successive Govts of India have force-fed the Indian public about the mythical (not tangible) merits of licenced-production & self-sufficiency in defence production. In other words, a long overdue reality check is direly reqd. Remember, that Rs.35,000 crores could easily have been saved & invested in the Rafale project had the Govt of India decided to import the Su-30MKIs off-the-shelf.Therefore,as evidenced from above,one should always get one’s priorities right,and have a clear vision as to what they really need!!
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Sir, you need to correct your facts. I do agree that of the shelf products will cost you less but all the money, 240 odd cr will go to the exporting nation without any benefit to the importing nation.
Where as when you produce the product in our own production line, you earn experience, your supply lines and vendors gain experience and much needed confidance. By the way for your information we are only importing metal blocks from Russia. Rest all is done in India. Even we are manufacturing engine for MKI from scratch in India.
So what is your takeaway....
Though we pay more more than 50% money stays in India and at the end we pay much less to the exporting nation.